Word: weres
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Impressed by his sudden emergence into the limelight, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology invited him this fall to lecture as a guest professor. In Cambridge last week, Tange's thoughts were still in Japan; he was worried that too many traces of the past may remain in his work...
Hurrying into his fourth-floor office every morning around 8:30 after a bracing 4½-mile walk from home, burly, vigorous Bill Knowland looked just the man to take charge. But as the months passed, there was no improvement. Reserved to the point of coldness. Bill Knowland rarely mixed...
With Tribune morale at rock bottom, the results of last week's Guild election were inevitable. Indeed. Bill Knowland hardly put up a fight. Said he after the polling: "The vote speaks for itself." Indeed it did: by a 2-to-i margin. Bill Knowland had just lost another...
"Not All Black." From being Russia's second dullest paper (Pravda-circ. 6,000,000-official Communist Party organ, is incontestably the dullest), Izvestia became one of the sprightliest. Out went some of Tuesday's boring repetitions of what Pravda, the only-paper in Russia with a Monday...
To the young Associated Press reporter in Chicago, the whole business had an odd smell-or rather, lack of smell. It was during the blazing summer of 1933, and Ray Brennan, then 25 and covering one of his first big stories, was facing Swindler Jake ("The Barber") Factor, who claimed...